With the rising cost and decreasing availability of new stone and quality fill, many people are using precast concrete floor slabs to form their ground floor. Savings of €1,000’s have been made, even in small houses, by opting for SpanWright.
Security
Building Authorities and those supervising building practices will generally recommend precast floor slabs, especially in soft or sloping ground. Proper compaction of fill material is difficult to achieve and precast floor slabs as an alternative, eliminates the risk of sinking floors.
Speed
SpanWright slabs are held in stock and an average sized house can be floored with SpanWright in less than half a day. The use of SpanWright presents major timesavings compared to the lengthy process of placing fill, steel fixing, shuttering, pouring & setting of concrete. In addition, the use of precast floors can avoid the delay often caused by weather conditions.
Simplicity
In situations where there is a considerable amount of block work below ground floor level it is often desirable to reduce the number of foundation walls which will reduce cost. SpanWright floor slabs can be used to carry non load bearing block walls and hence facilitate a ‘spine wall’ system.
